> Does anyone else wish that we could have the opposite? Web apps with desktop technology? Yes. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/apywt/qt_mixed_wit

> Does anyone else wish that we could have the opposite? Web apps with desktop technology? Yes. http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/apywt/qt_mixed_with_salt_getting_qt_to_run_in_googles/c0iu9gu http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/apywt/qt_mixed_... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116815 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2116815 > Maybe it's time that we started looking for successors to HTTP and HTML designed with webapps/games in mind. HTTP's by no means perfect, but it's roughly the right thing for most purposes and probably the part of the Web that needs revision least urgently. As to HTML, it's not so much that we need successors to it (though we do) as that we need markup-language browsers to be HTTP-loadable applications running inside a portable runtime instead of starting with hardcoded markup browsers and trying to bodge them up into a generic runtime plus GUI system. Your slogan for the day: "The Web Is Arse-Backwards". By the way, notice that with (something on the lines of) NaCl + WebGL + appropriate cacheing we can could also get shot of the mobile-phone-native-app racket. No more Dalvik, no more iOS.